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Charles S. Tapiero is the Topfer Chair Distinguished Professor of Financial Engineering and Technology Management at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He founded the Department of Finance and Risk Engineering in 2006 and is department head until 2016. In addition, he founded and was co-Director of the Extreme Risk Initiative until Jan 1, 2016. Professor Tapiero has earned a worldwide reputation as a researcher and consultant, a public servant and has sat on the boards of large Corporations. Professor Tapiero is co-founder and co-editor in chief of Risk and Decision Analysis. His fields of interests span financial engineering, Fractional, Multi-Agents and Global Finance, computational and actuarial science.

Professor Tapiero has contributed more than 450 papers in academic journals and has written 15 books. His research spans a broad set of topics including Stochastic and Dynamic Systems, Fractional Mathematics and Probabilistic Systems and their many applications to Risk, Finance, Business, Insurance, Supply Networks, Operations Systems and Decision Analysis.

Professor Tapiero has held numerous University positions in the US, Europe and Asia (Columbia University, Case Western Reserve University, Hebrew University, ESSEC-France and others) as well as quasi-governmental and government agencies (1978-1982).

He received his MBA and doctoral degree (PhD) in Operation Research and Management from New York University’s Graduate school of Business Administration (1968, 1970)